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OIL DRIP WASHER FOR ROLLER SKATES.

No. 329,232. Patented Oct. 2'7; 1885.

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2o detached, showing a modification of construc- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS STEINBERGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

OIL-DRIP WASHER FOR ROLLER-SKATES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,232, dated October 27, 1885.

Application filed May 9, 1885. Serial No. 164,902. (No model.)

in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a longitudinal section in part through the axle and rollers of a skate having my improvements applied thereto; Figs. 2 and 3, section and side elevation of the combined metal washer and fibrous oil-drip on thereof; Fig. 4, perspective views of the arms oil-drip and metallic washer, also deeched; Fig. 5, a longitudinal section through a roller for a skate, with a fragment of the axle thereof representin g a modification of construc- 4 tion of the washer and oil-drip; Fig. 6, a face view of washer and drip shown in Fig. 5.

A in the accompanying drawings represents a sectional view in part of a pair of rollers for skates, with one roller and the axle B thereof in elevation detached from the foot-plate, having my improved adjustable and detachable fibrous oil-drip and washer applied thereto. 0 is the metal washer, of the usual form, and placed upon the axle B, upon the rim or edge of which washer is placed a fibrous oil-drip, D, of any suitable material. This oil-drip surrounds closely the edge of the hub of the roller, and absorbs and retains any oil that may find its way out from between the axle and the hub or from between the washer and cap F.

In modification of construction Fig. 3 the fibrous oil-drip D is represented simply as two flat disks secured to the surfaces and surrounding the edge or rim of the washer C in any convenient manner.

Perspective view Fig. 4 represents the oildrip D with an annular groove, a, to receive the metal washer O, and to be retained in position thereon without other fastenings, and removable therefrom to be replaced by a new one when required. In Fig. 5 the metal washer is in the form of a disk having an inwardlyprojecting rim, b, forming a recess to receive and incase the fibrous drip and to retain it in position therein without other fastenings.

In assembling the parts of this combinationwasher, the fibrous drip D, with its annular inner groove, (1, being prepared, the washer C, of the required diameter, (by the elasticity of the material,) is introduced into the groove 0!, whereon the drip D will remain without additional fastenings, and when saturated with oil or other lubricating substances may be readily removed therefrom and replaced by a new one.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and at it will be observed that the fibrous drip surrounds the edge or rim of the metal washer, and presents absorbing-surfaces to both faces and the edge or rim thereof, and to the edge of the hub of the roller and to the edge or rim of the cap F orhead of the axle.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As anew article of manufacture, a combination washer and oil-drip for rollers for skates and other purposes, consisting of the metallic washer 0, provided with an adjustable and removable fibrous drip, D, to catch and absorb the oil escaping from the axle and hub, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, the combined washer and oil-drip for rollers for skates and other purposes, consisting of the metallic washer O and the fibrous drip D, which surrounds the edge and extends over a portion of the two surfaces of the washer, substantially in the manner and for the purpose described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, the com bined washer and oil-drip for rollers for skates and other purposes, consistingoftheindependreceive the edge or rim of a washer, as deent removable fibrous drip D, having an anscribed. nular recess, a, therein to receive the rim or edge of the washer, and the metallic washer G, LOUIS STEINBERGER' 5 substantially as herein described. Witnesses:

4. As a new article of manufacture, a fibrous EDW. M. CLARK,

disk having an annular interior groove, a, to EDGAR TATE. 

